In Christianity, an unreached people group refers to an
ethnic group without an indigenous, self-propagating
Christian church movement.[1] Any ethnic or
ethnolinguistic nation without enough Christians to evangelize the rest of the nation is an "unreached people group". It is a missiological[2] term used by
Evangelical Protestants.[3][4]
The
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization defines a people group as "the largest group within which the
gospel can spread as a church planting movement without encountering barriers of understanding or acceptance."[5][6]
"Nation" is sometimes used interchangeably for "people group".
The term is sometimes applied to ethnic groups in which less than 2% of the population is Evangelical Protestant Christian,[7][8] Including nations where other forms of Christianity are prevalent such as
Western Catholicism,
Eastern Christianity or
Lutheranism.[9][10][11]